Takeup of Google was rapid but nobody managed to obviate their advantage. It wasn't even a first mover advantage. The problem for alternatives is they have to

Takeup of Google was rapid but nobody managed to obviate their advantage. It wasn't even a first mover advantage. The problem for alternatives is they have to answer the question of why they are better than ChatGPT. ChatGPT only had to answer the question of why it was better than <anything before AI> and for most people that was obvious.